Abstract: Correspondence, interview transcripts, speeches and writings, memoranda, notes, printed
matter, and photographs, relating to post-World War II American foreign policy,
especially formulation of the Marshall Plan, international trade policy, and Atlantic
unity; the cotton industry; and family affairs. Includes original family correspondence,
especially between Will Clayton and his fiancee Susan Vaughan, 1897-1902; copies of State
Department documents and other papers; and papers of Ellen Garwood, daughter and
biographer of Will Clayton, relating to her father.

Language:
English.

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Access Points

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1953

Economic assistance, American--Europe

Commerce

United States--Foreign relations--Europe

Europe--Foreign relations--United States

Cotton trade--United States

United States. Dept. of State

United States--Foreign relations

Europe

Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Europe

Statesmen--United States

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

1880 Feb. 7

Born, Tupelo, Mississippi

1902 Aug. 14

Married Susan Vaughan

1904

Co-founder, Anderson, Clayton & Co., Houston, Texas

1918

Member, Committee on Cotton Distribution, War Industries Board

1940-1942

Vice-President, Export-Import Bank

1942-1944

Assistant Secretary of Commerce

1944

Administrator, Surplus War Property Administration

1944-1945

Assistant Secretary of State

1945-1947

Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs

1947

Head, U.S. Delegation, United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment, Havana, Cuba

1946-1949

Alternate Governor, World Bank

1949-1961

Vice President, Atlantic Union Committee

1950

Author,
We Must Trade Sovereignty for Freedom

1951-1954

Member, National Security Training Commission

1955

Author,
The Road to Peace

1958

Author,
What Price Oil?

1958

Author,
We Are Losing the Cold War

1960

Chairman, National Committee on Campaign Contributions and Expenditures